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Saturday, October 22, 2011

guest post- hand stitching journal pages from Jane LaFazio

I have asked a few of my creative friends to help me out with my blog here and there and today's guest post comes to you from Jane LaFazio!

I love hand stitching and have been embroidering since I was 16 years old. And yet, I use the same ol’ handful of stitches in my work, frankly, because they’re easy and I love them! I nearly always use variegated thread, so it makes even the simplest stitches look cool.

I needed a handout for one ofmy classes, to show the students my basic stitches and I didn’t want to use someone else’s instructions—so I drew my own instructions in my journal! Then of course, I needed a stitched sample. I stitched on plain felt, and glued it next to the illustration stitch page in mymixed media journal. For the students, I created a handout with images of my journal page here is a peek-

Jane LaFazio, a full-time artist since 1998, truly believes she is living the life she was meant to live! In that time, she has cultivated a wide range of skills as a painter, mixed media, quilt artist and art teacher. She’s known for her fun-loving, creative teaching style, and providing a relaxed supportive environment in the classroom. She teaches workshops online and at art retreats internationally. Jane’s artwork has been featured in Cloth, Paper, Scissors and Quilting Arts magazines many times, and in Danny Gregory’s An Illustrated Life, and in numerous books.Jane has made 7 appearances on Quilting Arts TV, in season 300 and 800.Her instructional DVDs “From Art Journaling to Art” and “The Small Art Quilt” is available on Amazon.

22 comments:

Thanks, Alisa, I love Jane's work! I, also, do a lot of hand-stitching, but this compact little diagram will remind be to add new types of stitches--I'm putting it on my favorites. Hope you are getting enough sleep--your baby is beautiful.

Thank you! My sewing machine hates me, so I tend to skip over most sew-y type things, but your pages are very detailed yet have easy-to-follow instructions. I have a whole bunch of felt "leaves" that I just made and hate, so I think they may become my test subjects :)

Jane's stitch sketch book is inspiring, makes me want to go do some fabric work myself.

I'm amazed at all you get done... the crafts, the great blog, all of the wonderful creative ideas that you share with us. Just want to let you know that we your readers, are so lucky to have you! Thank you so much!

I love the photo of you, baby and husband. What a wonderful couple and now family!

How incredibly beautiful these instructions are! As you can see here: http://moonlacephoto.blogspot.com/2011/09/photo-stitching-project.htmlI have started stitching recently. It's mostly a skill that I try to remember from when I was in middle school (too long ago). I am now inspired to add a few more stitches to my projects. Thank you!!